Category: Diseases

M.ulcerans infection occurs at sites of traumatic inoculation, usually the legs, resulting in large to gigantic deep painless ulcerations, occurring in tropical regions of Africa and Australia. Causes of Mycobacterium

Mycobacterium marinum infection follows traumatic inoculation while the exposed skin is in an aqueous environment, whether a fish tank, swimming pool, or brackish water. It is characterized clinically by an

Mycobacterium fortuitum complex (MFC) organisms cause infections at sites of inoculation, either surgical, injection, or traumatic, characterized by wound infections occurring several weeks after the insult. Cutaneous infection accounts for

Mycetoma is a local, chronic, slowly progressive infection of skin, subcutaneous tissues, fascia, bone, and muscle, most commonly of the foot or hand, characterized by swelling or tumorfaction draining sinuses,

Molluscum contagiosum is a self-limited epidermal viral infection, characterized clinically by skin­colored papules that are often umbilicated, occurring in children and sexually active adults. In HIV­infected individuals, however, numerous large

Metastatic cancer to the skin is characterized by solitary or multiple dermal or subcutaneous nodules, occurring as metastatic cells from a distant noncontiguous primary malignant neoplasm, that are transported to

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) (cutaneous neuroendocrine tumor) is a rare malignant solid tumor thought to be derived from a specialized epithelial cell, the Merkel cell. It is a non­dendritic, nonkeratizing,

Melasma (Greek: “a black spot”) is an acquired light – or dark-brown hyperpigmentation that occurs in the exposed areas, most often on the face, and results from exposure to sunlight;

Measles is a highly contagious childhood viral infection characterized by fever, coryza, cough, conjunctivitis, pathognomonic enanthem (Koplik’s spots), and an exanthem. It can be complicated, acutely and chronically, by significant

Mastocytosis is associated with an abnormal accumulation of mast cells in the skin and at various systemic sites, which, because of pharmacologically active substances, is manifested clinically by local cutaneous